{"id":2640,"date":"2018-07-10T16:49:46","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T16:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/?p=2640"},"modified":"2018-09-13T11:22:11","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T11:22:11","slug":"dr-joseph-bull-on-kmtv-discussing-wolf-reintroduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2018\/07\/10\/dr-joseph-bull-on-kmtv-discussing-wolf-reintroduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Joseph Bull on KMTV discussing wolf reintroduction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr Joseph Bull<\/a> has been interviewed on local news channel KMTV to discuss his research on reintroducing wolves in Scotland first published last month in the journal Restoration Ecology<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“If you reintroduce a species somewhere, you can do so for at least two reasons: you want to conserve that species, or create a viable population; or you want that species to do something within the landscape. We were looking at reintroducing wolves to a fenced enclosure in the Scottish Highlands and see if they would do either or both of these things.”<\/p>\n

In the region, there is a proliferation of red deer which is having a degrading effect on the countryside. “They used to have a lot of natural predators, like wolves, which we don’t have anymore. So there’s a high density of red deer in Scotland and that has a knock-on effect on the native woodland, reducing its quality. So what we hoped these wolves would do is reduce those deer numbers to a level where it’s a more natural ecosystem.<\/p>\n

“The thing we wanted to study was that, by having the fences around the reserve, you’d actually end up with a higher wolf density than you would if the space was left open. And whether that was a more natural system because int he wild they’re always going to come across a natural barrier eventually.”<\/p>\n

Dr Bull’s research has had a wide reach, even inspiring a Shakespearean sonnet<\/a> by Sam Illingworth, a Senior Lecturer in Science Communications at Manchester Metropolitan University.<\/p>\n

The full interview can be viewed here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Image courtesy of Chris Sandom (@nature_based on Twitter).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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